andrewcoppin: > Hi folks. > > I just read a rather interesting paper about a fork of GHC that performs > "optimistic evaluation". This shows big wins in some cases. > > The authors claim to have implemented this in a fork of GHC and promised > that it would be integrated into the production compiler "in the near > future". Curios, I investigated the GHC wiki... > > Well, let's see now. The front page has links to "out release plans for > 6.8.3" and "what will be in 6.10". The latter page, > > http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Status/Releases > > mentions that a beta has just been released... and seems oblivious to > the fact that 6.10.1 is production now. Clearly, any hopes I might have > had of getting a handle on the current status of GHC from this wiki were > dashed somewhat. ;-) > > Does anybody have any suggestions for a more reliable way of figuring > out what the current activities and plans for GHC are?
I'm assuming you're talking about the 'eager evaluation' papers? (There were a few). I think the verdict was that the runtime machinery was too complex for the performance gain. -- Don _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe